John Watson (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I give notice that on the next day of sitting I shall withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1 standing in my name for the next day of sitting that the disallowance of ASIC Class Order [CO 07/753], made under paragraphs 601QA(1)(a), 911A(2)(1), 1020F(1)(a) and 1020F(1)(c) of the Corporations Act 2001, be disallowed.

Senator Bob Brown to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)   notes the statement in Lhasa on 21 June 2008 by Tibet’s Communist Party Secretary General Zhang Qing Li, that ‘we will certainly be able to totally smash the splittist schemes of the Dalai Lama clique’;

(b)   calls on the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Smith) to ascertain if Mr Li was reflecting the policy of the People’s Republic of China and, if so, how that policy is being carried into effect; and

(c)   asks the Minister to find out how many Tibetan citizens, arrested since violence erupted in Lhasa in March 2008, remain in custody and, as of 23 June 2008, how many have been brought to trial.